Bloomberg taps Pickert as deputy team leader for Fed team

Reade Pickert

Bloomberg News reporter Reade Pickert has been named an editor and deputy team leader for its Federal Reserve team.

She has been covering the economy for the past four-plus years.

Pickert is a University of Virginia graduate in international relations and affairs and economics. While there, she worked on The Cavalier Daily as a reporter.

She previously interned for Bloomberg as a media, telecom and entertainment reporter, and she also interned for CNN International and The Tennessean in Nashville.

Chris Roush

Chris Roush was the dean of the School of Communications at Quinnipiac University in Hamden, Connecticut. He was previously Walter E. Hussman Sr. Distinguished Professor in business journalism at UNC-Chapel Hill. He is a former business journalist for Bloomberg News, Businessweek, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The Tampa Tribune and the Sarasota Herald-Tribune. He is the author of the leading business reporting textbook "Show me the Money: Writing Business and Economics Stories for Mass Communication" and "Thinking Things Over," a biography of former Wall Street Journal editor Vermont Royster.